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Action Against Hunger team member holding MUAC malnutrition band.

Areas of expertise

Our goal is to provide evidence and learning to support the delivery of more effective and accountable health and nutrition programming. 

We provide a wide range of high-quality technical and operational support.

Our services and research work will help you to:

  • Understand the causes of malnutrition
  • Meet the needs of your target population
  • Understand the nutrition status of your population
  • Evaluate the cost of your nutrition intervention
  • Analyse and evaluate the nutrition situation and programmes

Find out more about our areas of expertise below.

Action Against Hunger nutrition experts in Kenya.

Understand the causes of malnutrition

Nutritional causal analyses can help you understand the causes of malnutrition in your context. Methodologies include:

  • Link NCA
  • Rapid NDA
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Action Against Hunger community worker in Madagascar talking to family.

Meet the needs of your target population

Coverage assessments aim to measure the treatment coverage of Community Management of Acute Malnutrition (CMAM) programmes. Services include:

  • SQUEAC
  • SLEAC
  • Bottleneck analysis
  • Community assessment
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Women preparing food in Bangladesh.

Understand the nutrition status of your population

SMART (Standardised Monitoring of Assessment and Relief in Transition) can help you understand the severity and magnitude of a nutrition and public health situation. It includes:

  • SMART+
  • Rapid SMART
  • SENS
Action Against Hunger team working in Bangladesh.

Evaluate the cost of your nutrition intervention

Cost-efficiency and Cost-effectiveness Analyses (CEAs) help to strengthen accountability, improve transparency and better understand how resources are used to achieve programme outcomes.

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Action Against Hunger staff members sitting together.

Analyse and evaluate the nutrition situation and programmes

Research and evaluation are essential to understanding the current nutrition status of your population and effectiveness of nutrition programming. We provide support with:

  • Nutrition surveillance systems
  • Programme and impact evaluations
  • Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) practices
  • Social and behaviour support change
  • Qualitative research
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